Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Education
Save Our Sixth Form Colleges!
Film length: 13:34 Sixth Form Colleges are under attack. The latest cuts mean almost a quarter of the funding for sixth form colleges has gone since 2010, and now new Government “Area Reviews” mean colleges […]
Council Workers
Education not Deprivation! Derby TAs strike against a 25% pay cut
Film length: 12:40 Teaching assistants and other support staff in Derby have had their pay cut by 25%, incredible after an equal pay review – which means losing £400 a month for this low-paid, predominantly […]
Living Wage/Basic Rights
eCourier: Workers strike for basic employment rights
Royal Mail subsidiary, eCourier, are classifying most of their couriers as “Independent Contractors” – so that they can unlawfully deny them the basic employment rights of a living wage, sick pay, holidays, pension and union […]